Sonu Agarwal

About Sonu Agarwal

A seasoned Chartered Accountant bringing more than 10 years of experience as a Financial Analyst specializing in Business Finance/FP & A. Handles end to end financials for portfolio of accounts which primarily includes planning the budgeting and forecasting activities, month end close process, variance analysis and other strategic initiatives to enable business to make informed decision making. Act as a finance business partner to stakeholders and ensure all financial controls are in placeFosters transparency, understanding and ownership of financial reports and financial and operational metrics across organization. Develops robust policies, procedures and internal controls to advise leadership on business improvement strategies. Builds cross-departmental relationships to achieve organizational goals and objectives.

Experience

1. Supervising Associate - Eyt(IT Services)

   EY

   Jul 2018 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Leadership Reporting on financial status of all sub functions, key financial performance parameters and advice on actions, risk dependencies to meet financial commits made to management.Led annual budgeting and forecasting efforts. Maintained Accuracy in forecasting (+- 5%) to facilitate informed decision making by creating bottoms up forecast and cost models.Performed Month – end close processes & related variance analysis. Reviewed variances with Business within timeline with adequate analysis.Acted as a Finance business partner to various operational stakeholders and provided guidance on key decisions like costs optimization, plan achievement & contributing through early warning on risks & opportunities.Drove process improvements to ensure all Internal controls are in place. Reduced process discrepancies by 30% by accurately maintaining performance reporting data systems.Worked on strategic initiatives and ad hoc projects in collaboration with BU Head & Business Leads.Acted as a SPOC for all Project Management (approving new SOWs, resource onboarding withtalent team, vendor invoices, timely client billing) & Finance (Parallel finance team for any month end queries, accruals, re-class) related queries for allocated verticals.Handled accounts assigned with zero tolerance on errors or escalations on deliverables.

Education

• The Institute of Company Secretaries of India

  CS - Intermediate

  2008 — 2011

• Shri Shikshayatan College(Calcutta University)

  Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.)Honours, Accounting Honours

  2006 — 2009

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

  CA

  2007 — 2012

Skills

• Financial Variance Analysis
• Corporate Finance
• Finance
• Financial Analysis
• Data Analysis
• Microsoft Office
• Credit
• Financial Modeling
• Oracle
• Mis
• Accounting
• Strategic Financial Planning
• Business Profitability
• Business Analysis